The strongest dust storms envelops the entire Mars for several months. Scientists have found that global dust storms can be associated with an unusual energy imbalance found on the surface of the Red Planet. The study published in the journal AGU Advances, writes Live Science.

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All planets in the solar system absorb the energy of the sun, but also release it back into space. The difference between the absorption and emission of energy is called the heat balance. It directly affects the thermal characteristics of the surface and atmosphere of planets, which means that they determine their climate.

Scientists are well known for the thermal balance of the Earth, but it is balanced, because our planet absorbs about the same number of sun energy as it releases into space during the year. Much is known about the thermal balance of Mars, although the theory suggests that it is also balanced.

One of the most famous weather phenomena on the Red Planet are global dust storms, which is enveloped in all of Mars and arise in the southern hemisphere. Scientists decided to find out what causes them and came to the conclusion that the thermal balance plays an important role in this.

The authors of the study used the data of the praise and orbital devices about the energy that Mars absorbed and produced for several years.

Scientists have found that when spring and summer come in the northern hemisphere of Mars, the surface of the planet absorbs more energy in the northern latitudes than releases. Thus, an excess of energy is created, concentrated at the north pole of the planet. It turned out that everything happens the other way around, when a very and winter occurs in the northern hemisphere, in the southern - spring and summer. At the same time, an excess of energy is concentrated closer to the South Pole, but covers the entire southern hemisphere. Scientists believe that this is because in the spring the southern hemisphere of Mars is closest to the Sun, and therefore gets more solar energy.

Excess energy leads to the appearance of global dust storms, scientists believe. As the southern hemisphere of Mars heats up, a layer of the thin atmosphere of Mars is also heated, which is in contact with the surface of the planet. Because of this, conditions arise that can raise particles of dust, thereby creating the strongest dust storms.

Astronomers also concluded that dust storms affect the thermal balance of Mars. Data analysis showed that dust storms reduce the amount of heat absorbed and produced by the planet. This is probably due to a high concentration of dust particles in the atmosphere.

At the same time, despite the seasonal fluctuations, the thermal balance of Mars is approximately balanced, although it differs from the earthly, scientists say.

As Focus already wrote, scientists discovered on Mars the signs that about 4 billion years ago in the server hemisphere of the planet was a huge ocean of liquid water.

Focus also wrote that the astronomers saw the approach of the disaster in deep space. Any clash of galaxies is a catastrophic event, although this does not mean that the galaxies disappear.